Walking America, part 3: Indianapolis

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What was most striking to me was how diverse Indianapolis is. Not just statistically, but truly diverse.
A lot of scolding about big Red state cities being hickish & xenophobic.

That isn't necessarily the case at street level. Indianapolis, like a lot of red state cities, has large immigrant communities that mix with broader population. There is less inequality at the lived level
Not to keep beating this drum, but how immigration plays out in places with lots of immigration is far less confrontational and more successful than the national discourse thinks.

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15 Oct
So begins my walk from among the corporate plazas of downtown Chicago to some dive bar (to be chosen) in like Everton.

17 miles of whatever. I don’t know north Chicago at all. So should be interesting
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Few thoughts from my first impressions from walking across Indianapolis

1) striking how diverse city is. Not in a statistical way. But in a lived way. A city can be diverse, but in separate bubbles, enforced & self enforced (looking at you NYC). That is less the case here
That is not denying the city, like all, is segregated, by race, wealth, & education. It is that it is less so. And people interact more. At a logistical & lived way, & in most importantly, in values” — that is how people get their meaning & view themselves
2) How interstates change everything. The path of the expressways defines neighborhoods, either by cutting & separating them from each other, or by filing them with cars, noise, & exhaust.

A city, like Indianapolis, with lots of highways intersecting jt, is X different cities.
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So begins my cross Indianapolis walk (from beltway to beltway), in a strip mall with lots going on
Metaphor alert!

Ps; once again, Indianapolis is another reminder just how diverse, most of “ fly over America” is
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